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If I cannot get the fifth vol. of the Asiatick Researches to buy in Calcutta, I will send you my own so that you may depend on receiving that volume by Dr Heming.
I will put up some more specimens of the resins of Vateria indica & of the Russian Karoba to me they seem the same. The green & amber coloured are from the same trees, & they grow freely in the province of [indecipherable] on the other side of the peninsula. My new Vateria, which I call lan-ceolaria, grows on the mountains on our eastern frontiers, it yields a resin also, which is in high estimation amongst the Bramins indispensably accompany in some of their religious ceremonies & these called chower, chooges, or chewah one plant only is not in the chest on the Carnatic.
Of the other plants you gave me to bring out, one is alive & a stout handsome tree, 20 feet high, & with a trunk 11 inches in circumference, It has produced three or four fruit, and is now well [indecipherable]. I do not however think it the best fruit in the world. It is a real [indecipherable].
You do not mention your own health I therefore trust you continue to enjoy as much of that inestimable blessing as can be hoped for, and that